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The office was already provided $277,000 last year by the Finance Department and Treasury Board to pilot the health-care audit function. "We would be an independent office that looks at the information behind that dashboard and report on whether or not the public can rely on the information," Adair said.
“Of the total $14 billion annual spend of the government, health is $6 million,” Adair said. “To put it in context, we are asking for $1.1 million to have an audit function devoted to health. When you add the amount we got last year plus this year, it’s $1.4 million on a $6-billion spend.”Adair said it was important that the new health-care audit responsibility would not erode the work the office is already doing. She provided a rough estimate of how the additional funds would be spent.
Ryley Boutilier, an information officer waits for some early voters at a returning office in the basement of Anglican Church of the Holy Spirit, in Dartmouth on Wednesday July 21, 2021. - Tim Krochakd “We’re not proposing to increase our footprint but we’re just going to make people have some space within our existing square footage,” Adair said.
“Our vision, to be trusted by all Nova Scotians to excel in the delivery of fair and inclusive elections is founded on our independence from the executive branch of Nova Scotia’s government,” Rice said, recognizing several changes at Elections Nova Scotia.
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